Catalina González Arango Work contact Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas Universidad de los Andes Edificio J, oficina 304C E-mail: c.gonzalez2579@uniandes.edu.co Nacionality: colombian Date and place of birth: Medellín, 13th August, 1975 Languages: Spanish (mother tonge), English (very good), German (good), Italian (good); French (basics). Personal contact Calle 32 No. 13-83 Torre 3, apto. 1702 Conjunto Bávaro Bogotá-Colombia E-mail: cataruga@yahoo.de Objetive To contribute with my professional and scientific experience, through research and teaching, to the development of an interdisciplinary, diverse and high level academic group. Since the start of my academic career as Forest Engineer, until my current postdoctoral position at a Department of Geosciences, I have built my own approach to the understanding of biotic systems, which is essentially based on the concept of change along the space-time dimensions. My aspiration is to further deepen and provide feedback on the study of tropical biotic systems from this perspective. Areas of interest Climate change, paleoclimate, palynology, ecology and conservation of tropical forests, vegetation and climate history of South America, land-ocean interactions. Education October 2004-July 2008 PhD (Magna cum laude) MARUM, University of Bremen July 2002-June 2004 MSc. in Forests and Environmental Conservation Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellin. January 1994-2001 Bachelor in Forestry Engineering Tropical vegetation and climate related to Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles and Heinrich events: high resolution palynological study of environmental change in northern South America during Marine Isotope Stage 3 Funded: European Union Programme of High Level Scholarships for Latin America(Alβan)/ (DAAD)-Colfuturo. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer and Dr. Lydie Dupont. Late Holocene paleoenviromental reconstruction in San Andrés Island, Colombian Caribbean. Funded: COLCIENCIAS- Programa Jóvenes Investigadores/ Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Supervised by Dr. Ligia E. Urrego First class honours. Thesis Reconstrucción palinológica en la Cuenca de Panamá, Pacífico Ecuatorial. 1
Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellín Supervised by Dr. Ligia E. Urrego and Dr. José Ignacio Martínez. Awards, prizes and scholarships 2009 EPRI Young Scientist Award for oral presentation PAGES, Corvallis, USA, July 2009. 2009 MARUM 2008 prize, best PhD thesis at the institute. 2004-2008 DAAD-Colfuturo partial loan-scholarship to accomplish my PhD in Germany. 2004-2007 Scholarship from The Programme Alβan the European Union Programme of High Level Scholarships for Latin America (Scholarship E04D047330CO) to accomplish PhD 2002-2004 Graduate sponsorship to complete Master studies, National University of Colombia. 2001 Academic Excellence Best undergraduate student of the promotion. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Colombia. 2001 First price in the student poster category Looking back to the future: Palaeo Studies of the Earth System, Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, July 2001. 1997 First place in an Essay Contest called by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín. The price was in the form of a sejour in Ilmenau, Germany. 1994 First place in the admission exam for the Forestry Engineering program. Research and academic experience 2007-present External reviewer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2009- Reviewer, Journal of Paleolimnology 2009- Reviewer, Global Change Biology October 2008-present Postdoctoral researcher Europrox/University of Bremen October 2004-July 2008 PhD at MARUM University of Bremen Posdoctoral researcher, European Graduate College Proxies in Earth History (Europrox) associated to the group Historical Geology and Paleontology, Department of GeosDepartamento de Geociencias de la Universidad de Bremen. Neotropical vegetation response to abrupt climate changes. 2
2003-2006 Centro de Investigación Carbono & Bosques 2002-2004 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colciencias 2002 Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1999-2001 Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Universidad Eafit 2000 EPM- Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1999-2000 National University of Colombia Editorial committee of newsletter Cambium. Associated researcher. Areas of interest: response of plant communities to environmental change, paleoclimate, palynology, scientific divulgation. Research Assistantship within the Research group on Forest Sciences, as part of the program Young Scientists (COLCIENCIAS). Project Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the San Andrés Island, Colombian Caribbean. Supervisor Ligia Estela Urrego. Ecology of tropical forests: seed bank and litter under different plant covers. Supervision: Dr. Michael Aide Palynology in marine sediments from the Panama Basin. Supervisors Dr. Ligia Estela Urrego and Dr. Jose Ignacio Martinez. Coeditor of the Book Estudios ecológicos en el área de influencia del proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce II: silvicultura, ecofisiologia, palinologia. Ecological studies on the area of the hydroelectric project Porce II: silviculture, ecophysiology, palynology. Supervisor Prof. Jorge Ignacio del Valle. Teaching experience 2010 Lecturer Universidad de los Andes August 2009 Invited lecturer AWI 2005-2008 Supervision of laboratory techniques 2003-2004 C&B workshop 1998-2002 Migratory Raptors 1996-1997 Taxonomic Botany 1996 Environmental education Biodiversity and Climate change Seminar: Tropical salt-marsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events Introduction for new students working with palynological preparations, Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen. Workshop on Global Change for undergraduate students, Research Center Carbono y Bosques. Program of environmental education in rural schools in Fredonia, Colombia. Teaching assistantship for undergraduate students, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Colombia. Environmental Educational Program in rural schools, El Retiro, Antioquia-Colombia. 3
Funding June 2009 ESF Conference June 2008 Workshop QUEST-DESIRE May 2007 ESF Conference November 2006 YSC and ESSP Open Science Conference 2004-2007 Alban Scholarship April 2006 EGU, Vienna July 2004 AAPS, International Palynological Congress 2002-2004 COLCIENCIAS, Research funds 2002-2004 National University of Colombia, Master Scholarship. 2002 IAI-Red Latinoamericana de Botanica July 2001 Global Change, Open Science Conference, Amsterdam. 1997 Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University Grant by ESF with partial funding to participate at the research conference Mechanisms of Quaternary Climate Change: stability of warm phases in the past and in the future Full grant by QUEST to participate at the High resolution pollen records and reconstruction of vegetation changes during Dansgaard- Oeschger events. Grant by ESF with partial funding to participate at the research conference Ocean controls in abrupt climate change. Grant by START-IAI with complete funding to participate at the International Young Scientist Conference and the ESSP Open Science Conference, Beijing-China (competitive selection). Alban (European Union) program Ph.D. funding (competitive selection). Funding from European Geophysical Union to attend the Conference (competitive selection) Financial support to attend the International Palynological Congress, Granada-Spain. Co-financial support from Colciencias in the Young Scientist program. Sponsorship from the National University of Colombia to complete Master studies (Best undergraduate student of that year) Grant to attend the summer school Biodiversity and global change: the human impact on natural ecosystems of the Americas. Mexico. (competitive selection) Financial support to attend the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam (competitive selection) Grant to attend the International course Quantitative Methods for Managing Biological Diversity, Peruvian Amazonia. (competitive selection) 4
Selected Courses and Conferences July 2009 July 2009 June 2009 November 2008 August-Sept. 2008 June 2008 June 2008 May 2007 March 2007 November 2006 November 2006 September 2006 April 2006 4 th PAGES Open Science Meeting, Corvallis, USA. Oral Presentation Tropical saltmarsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events 1 st PAGES Young Scientist Meeting, Corvallis, USA. Oral Presentation Tropical saltmarsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events ESF research conference Mechanisms of Quaternary Climate Change: stability of warm phases in the past and in the future, Obergurgul, Austrial. Poster presentation: Were humid intervals in northern South America always warm in the North Atlantic? 15 th NSG Annual Symposium, Utrecht, Holanda. Oral presentation Palynological landsea comparison during rapid climatic changes in northern South America: evidence from the Cariaco Basin. 12th International Palynological Congress IPC-XII, Bonn. Oral presentation Tropical salt marsh succession as sea-level indicator during Heinrich events. ECOLMAS Course Career Workshop for Geoscientists, University of Bremen Quest-Desire workshop High resolution pollen records and reconstruction of vegetation changes during Dansgaard-Oeschger events, Bordeaux. Oral presentation: Neotropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes during the last glacial period: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin European Science Foundation Conference Ocean controls in abrupt climate change. NEBROC Course Terrestrial climate signals in deep-sea sediments, University of Bremen. ESSP Open Science Conference, Poster presentation: Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. International Young Scientists Global Change Conference, Beijing, China. Oral presentation: Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. 36th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfÖ), Bremen, Germany. Oral presentation: Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate chages: palynological evidence of multiple stable states during the last glacial. European Geosciences Union, General Assembly. Vienna. Poster presentation: Centennial resolution record of vegetation change from glacial sediments of the Cariaco Basin. 5
March 2006 July 2005 November 2004 July 2004 October 2003 November 2002 October 2002 July 2001 February 2001 November 2000 September 1999 May-June 1999 April 1999 November 1997 ECOLMAS Course Time series analysis, University of Bremen ECOLMAS Course Organism-based proxies in paleoceanography University of Bremen ECOLMAS Introductory course on Marine Sciences, NIOZ-University of Bremen. International Palynological Congress, Granada (Spain). Oral Presentation Mangroves as environmental indicators in palynological reconstructions. Poster Vegetational and Environmental history of the Colombian Caribbean during the Holocene. Course Cambio Climático Global: Implicaciones para la conservación de los recursos naturales. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín. Course Biodiversidad y cambio global: el impacto humano en los ecosistemas naturales de las Américas". Red Latinoamericana de Botánica/Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, México VIII Latin American Botany Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (Poster: Cambios de la vegetación y del clima durante los últimos 40000 años en la Cuenca de Panamá, Pacífico colombiano: evidencia palinológica de las secciones marinas ODP 677B y TR 163-38). Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Poster: Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Panama Basin: palynological evidence from marine cores ODP677B and TR 163-38) Symposium on Tropical and subtropical Palynology (America -Africa), La Habana, Cuba (Poster: Polen en sedimentos marinos, Cuenca de Panamá, Pacífico Colombiano). Colombian Biome Meeting, Bogotá. Late Quaternary Paleoceanography of Colombian Pacific, Micropaleontological and Palynological results (presenter) XIII National Congress of Biology Students. Integración de diferentes enfoques para la conservación de la biodiversidad (presenter). Course Diseño y análisis de proyectos para el monitoreo de la diversidad biológica, Medellín y Utría Colombia (Plannig committee). Course on Climatic Prediction, Dr. Nicholas Graham, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín (attendee). Curse Quantitative Methods for Managing Biological Diversity, Peruvian Amazonia, Stanford University (attendee). 6
Publications Peer reviewed publications González, C., and Dupont, L.M. Coastal vegetation evidence for sea-level changes associated with Heinrich Events. PAGES newsletter 17(2):70-72 Mertens, K., González, C., Delusina, I. and Louwye, S. 2009. 30,000 years of productivity and salinity variations in the Late Quaternary Cariaco Basin revealed by dinoflagellate cysts. Boreas, DOI 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00095.x Mertens, K.N., Verhoeven, K., Verleye, T., Louwye, S., Deaf, A.S., Harding, I., De Schepper, S., Kodrans- Nsiah, M., De Vernal, A., Henry, M., Radi, T., Dybkjaer, K., Poulsen, N.E., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Chitolie, J., González Arango, C., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Londeix, L., Turon, J.-L., Marret, F., Matthiessen, J., Mccarthy, F., Prasad, V., Pospelova, V., Kyffin Hughes, J.E., Riding, J. B.; Rochon, A.; Sangiorgi, F., Welters, N., Sinclair, N., Thun, C., Soliman, A., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Vink, A., Young, M., 2009. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.05.004. González, C., and Dupont, L.M. 2009. Tropical salt marsh succession as sea-level indicator during Heinrich events. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 939-946. González, C., Urrego, L.E., Martínez, J.I., Polanía, J., and Yokoyama, Y. Late Holocene mangrove dynamics in the Colombian Caribbean: a history of human and natural disturbances. Accepted for publication in The Holocene. González, C., Dupont, L.M., Mertens, K., and Wefer, G. 2008. Reconstructing marine productivity of the Cariaco Basin during marine isotope stages 3 and 4 using organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts. Paleoceanography 23, doi:10.1029/2008pa001602. González, C., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H., and Wefer, G., 2008. Neotropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes during the last glacial: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. Quaternary Research 69: 217-230. González, C., Urrego, L.E., and Martínez, J.I. 2006. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Panama Basin: palynological evidence from marine cores ODP 677B and TR 163. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology: 234:62-80. González, C., Londoño, C. and Colorado, G.J. 2003. Banco de semillas y capa de hojarasca en varias coberturas vegetales en bosques montanos de las Cordillera Central de Colombia. Crónica Forestal y del Medio Ambiente, 18: 77 Sierra, C.A., González, C. and Urrego, D. 2002. La Declaración de Ámsterdam y el papel de la IGBP en el Cambio Global. Revista Crónica Forestal y del Medio Ambiente 17: 95 González, C., Urrego, L.E. and Martínez, J.I. 2001. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Panamá Basin: palynological evidence from marine cores ODP 677B and TR 163. Global Change Newsletter 48: 19. 7
Books and book chapters Rull, V., Abbott, M.B., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Bezada, M., Montoya, E., Nogué, S., González, C. Paleoenvironmental trends in Venezuela during the last glacial cycle. In: Sánchez-Villagra, M.R., Aguilera, O.A., Carlini, A.A. (eds.), Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology-the fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press. In press. Urrego, D. and González, C. (eds.) 2000. Estudios ecológicos en el área de influencia del proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce II. Empresas Públicas de Medellín 232 p. González, C. and Lema, L.F. 2000. Comportamiento de índices de diversidad en función del área acumulada. In: Urrego, D. & González, C. (eds.) Estudios ecológicos en el área de influencia del proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce II. Empresas Públicas de Medellín p: 107-121. González, C., Urrego, D.H., and Castaño, G.J., 2000. Variables estructurales y cambios en el microclima del sotobosque. In: Urrego, D. & González, C. (eds.) Estudios ecológicos en el área de influencia del proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce II. Empresas Públicas de Medellín. p: 161-180. Ramírez, L.F., González, C., Urrego, D.H., Lema, L.F. and Urrego L.E. 2000. Análisis palinológico de una columna de sedimentos de la quebrada Guaduas. In: Urrego, D. & González, C. (eds.) Estudios ecológicos en el área de influencia del proyecto hidroeléctrico Porce II. Empresas Públicas de Medellín. p: 217-232. Abstracts in Conference Volumes González, C., and Dupont, L.M. 2008. Tropical salt marsh succession as sea-level indicator during Heinrich Events. Terra Nostra, Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener Stiftung, Vol. 2008, 2: 12 th International Palynological Congress and 8 th International Organisation of Paleobotany Conference, Bonn, August 30-September 5, p: 96. González, C., and Dupont, L.M. 2007. Terrestrial-marine responses to rapid climate changes in northern South America: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. Terra Nostra, Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung, Vol. 2007, 1-2: The oceans in the earth system. International conference and 97th annual meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.v., Bremen, Germany, October 1-5, 2007 p: 95 González, C., and Urrego, L.E. 2007. Late Holocene mangrove dynamics in the Colombian Caribbean: a history of human an natural disturbances. Terra Nostra, Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung, Vol. 2007, 1-2: The oceans in the earth system. International conference and 97th annual meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.v., Bremen, Germany, October 1-5, 2007 p: 96 González, C., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H., and Wefer, G., 2006. Centennial resolution record of vegetation change from glacial sediments of the Cariaco Basin. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 8, 00550, SRef- ID SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-00550. González, C., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H., Wefer, G., 2006. Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate change: palynological evidence of multiple stable states during the last glacial. Proceedings of the Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ), Band 36, Bremen, p: 266. González, C., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H., and Wefer, G., 2006. Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. An earth system science partnership Global Environmental Change Open Science Conference, Beijing, China, 9-12 November, p: 530-531. 8
González, C., Urrego, L.E., Polanía, J., and Urán, G. 2004. Mangroves as environmental indicators in paleoecological reconstructions. 11 th International Palynological Congress, Granada, 4-9 July. Polen, 14. González, C., Urrego, L.E., and Martínez, J:I. 2002. Cambios de la vegetación y del clima durante los últimos 40.000 años en la Cuenca de Panamá, Pacífico Colombiano: evidencia palinológica de las secciones marinas ODP 677B y TR 163-38. Proceedings of the VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica y Segundo Congreso Colombiano de Botánica, Cartagena de Indias, 13-18 October, p. 376. González, C., Urrego, L.E., and Martínez, J.I. 2001. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Panama Basin: palynological evidence from marine cores ODP 677B and TR 163-38. Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, 10-13 July. Other publications González, C. 2004. Del pasado al futuro: una mirada sobre el clima a través del tiempo. Cambium: Boletín sobre Cambio Global del Centro de Investigación Carbono y Bosques, Vol. 2 ( 3): 1. González, C. 2003. El metabolismo de la tierra está cambiando. Cambium: Boletín sobre Cambio Global del Centro de Investigación Carbono y Bosques, Vol. 1 ( 7): 1. González, C. 2003. En 50 años disminuirá la producción de maiz por efecto del cambio climático. Cambium: Boletín sobre Cambio Global del Centro de Investigación Carbono y Bosques, Vol. 1 ( 5): 1. González, C. 2003. Los manglares como indicadores ambientales en los registros paleoecológicos. Cambium: Boletín sobre Cambio Global del Centro de Investigación Carbono y Bosques, Vol. 1 ( 3): 2-3. González, C. 2003. La huella del tiempo. Cambium: Boletín sobre Cambio Global del Centro de Investigación Carbono y Bosques, Vol. 1 (2): 1. Professional Activities Peer review of Global Change Biology, Journal of Paleolimnology, Member of the American Geology Union (AGU) PAGES subscriber References Dr. Lydie Dupont Marum/Universität Bremen Teléfono: +49 421 218 65532 E-Mail: dupont@uni-bremen.de Dr. Ligia Estela Urrego Departamento de Ciencias Forestales Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín Teléfono: +574 4309133 E-Mail: leurrego@unalmed.edu.co Dr. José Ignacio Martínez Departamento de Geología Universidad Eafit Teléfono: +574 2619500 E-Mail: jimartin@eafit.edu.co 9
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